Carriage-curtain fastening.



No. 756,090. PATEN-IBDMAE 29, 1904.

.J. M. YANKIE. GARRIAGE CURTAIN FASTENING.

APPLI OATIOI FILED OCT. 18, 1903.

H0 MODEL.

Patented March 5 29, 1904.

OFF-ICE;

CARRIAGE-CURTAIN FASTENINGQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No."' 7 56,'O90, dated' March 1904.

Application filed wa 16, 1903;

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known thatI, JAMES M. YANKIE, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Washington Court-House, in the county of Fayette and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriage-Curtain Fastenings; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompany: ing drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in devices for holding curtains, and is specially adapted for holding the curtains of carriages to the tops thereof and providing means whereby the curtain may yield slightly when fastened to the top incident to the natural jolting of the carriage and at the same time avoid any perceptible wearing upon the edges of the buttonholes, which is a common trouble with ordinary curtain-fasteners.

The invention comprises various details of construction and arrangements of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this application, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a portion of a curtain held to a carriage-top by my improved fasteners. Fig. 2 is a sectional view through one of the fastening devices, showing the manner in which the parts are held together. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the flexible button. Fig. 4: is a detail View of a fastening means for securing the apertured disk to the curtain, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view of one of the apertured rubber disks placed about apertures in the curtain. Fig. 6 is a sectional view through the flexible washer and ring.

Reference now being bad to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a flexible button which is mounted upon a shank portion B of a headed pin, as by a head B, said shank portion being adapted for attachment sa no. 177,336, (no 1. 1.

to the brace of the top of a carriage or to the body portion, or the device may be attached to other objects, as may be desired. The circumference of the button is convexed, so that the diameter of one face of the button is slightly greater than the other for a purpose which will presently appear.

D designates an apertured flexible disk provided with slits D and having rounded edges and preferably thicker than the said button and is placed about the marginal edge of an aperture formed in a curtain E. The diameter of the aperture in said disk is smaller than the diameter of the button, so that the marginal edge of the aperture will contact with the circumference of said flexible button, the latter yielding when the curtain is adjusted over same. The marginal edge of the aperture in said disk is convexed to conform to the circumference of said button, whereby when the disk is pushed over the button the latter will yield to allow the button to pass through the .same, and afterward when the curtain has a tendency to pull off the button the two convexed surfaces, one about the circumference of the button and the marginal edge of the aperture in the disk, will come in contact and offer resistance to the disk drawing off from the button. The flexible apertured disk I have shown as fastened to the curtain by means of a ring K, having spurs K, which pass through said slits D in the flexible disk, also through the lining of the curtain, and clenched to a metallic ring N, placed over the lining to a curtain adjacent to an aperture formed therein to receive the shank portion supporting the button.

By the provision of a curtain-fastener eni" bodying the features of my invention it will be observed that the curtain may be easily fastened to the buttons, and when thus adjusted,

. by reason of the yielding disk and button, the

strain is prevented incident to the wearing of parts, and an efficient fastener is provided, which may be easily applied to ordinary curtains, thus materially lengthening the usefulness of an ordinary curtain.

While I have shownand described my fastener as specially adapted for use upon ourtains for carriages, it will be understood that the same maybe applied for any use, and various alterations in the detailed construction may be made, if desired, Without in any way departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A device for fastening curtains comprising in combination with a curtain, aflexible apertured disk, a segment, a disk-holding member made of a piece of metal which is semicylindrical in cross-section, the outer edge of said member having integral spurs Kwhich contact with the outer circumference of said disk and pass through said curtain and clenched thereto, the inner edge of said member having spurs engaging said flexible disk adjacent to the marginal edge of the aperture in the disk, combined with a flexible button and support therefor, said button being slightly larger in diameter than the disk and over which said disk is adapted to be passed, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES M. YANKIE.

Witnesses:

LEE RANKIN, O. A. JONES. 

